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[SPEC] Victor's Cat

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Phaedra
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[SPEC] Victor's Cat

Okay, in the interest of promoting more discussion/spec on the forums and since I'm really curious about it...

What's up with Victor's cat?

Anyone else notice that this cat is trailing all sorts of assorted weirdness?

--A living creature is cold to the touch, and furthermore, appears to shed its coldness (the windowsill where it's been sitting remains cold to the touch -- anyone thinking The Sixth Sense here?)

--The cat doesn't like Kerry. On sight.

--The cat appears to understand human speech pretty well.

--The cat is repeatedly associated with bones.

Anyone else feeling like this cat may have some sort of connection to the Other Side?

Maybe it's just artistic license, some sort of objective correlative for eeriness, or a projection of Corazon's feelings, or whatever, but I would also note that several of the dead have mentioned watching the living (Kink has to get up from the poker table to do so, so apparently it involves more than just thinking about it), but the mechanism for doing so is never described.

Could the cat be a ghost?

I've talked about this in more depth here but I was wondering if anyone was getting weird vibes from the little beastie.

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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 5:20 pm

MageSteff
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Re: [SPEC] Victor's Cat

Phaedra wrote:

Cats have long been associated with being able the see the supernatural...

According to The Magic Paw; Cats and World Mythology

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Malaysia, where people believed the cat would help souls journey from Hell (in this case, the equivalent of the Christian Purgatory) to Paradise. The punishment for killing a cat was to carry and stack as many coconut tree trunks as the cat had hairs. (Talk about deforestation!)
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A cat on a grave meant that the buried person's soul was in the possession of the Devil, and if two cats were fighting on a grave, this signified the Devil and the defunct person's Guardian Angel fighting for his/her soul.

Wyrdology had this to say:

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Cats are also strongly associated with the supernatural and appear to have some form of sixth sense. They are, of course, common in film and literature, raning from Lewis Carroll's grinning Cheshire Cat through to the rather less pleasant Cat People (1942 and 1982).

And on their psychic nature

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There are tales from World War II, especially during the London Blitz, of cats knowing when an air raid was on the way. Often they would become visibly alarmed and would sometimes head for the shelter themselves, thus allowing the family to get to safety long before the sirens began to wail.

These examples could be due to the cats picking up subtle sensory cues to which we are insensitive. However many animals, especially cats, also seem to have premonitions of other forms of disaster for which there is no apparent physical cue.

In the same way that cats know when their owner is due home, there are also reports of them knowing when the owner has come to harm. There are stories of cats becoming visibly distressed when their owner is involved in an accident even when it occurs miles away.

There are also reports that cats seem able to sense when someone participating in an out-of-body experience comes close to them.

These psychic powers of cats, along with their supposed ability to sense the spirit world, are probably one reason for their association with medieval witchcraft.

In Folklore and Superstitions this was said about Cats and the afterlife

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In Japan, there is a myth that cats turn into super spirits when they die. According to the Buddhist religion, the body of the cat is the temporary resting place of the soul of very spiritual people.

Or it could just be that cats have good senses and can tell many things about people.

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Another reason why many people talk about a "sixth sense" in connection with cats, may be their extraordinary flair for the state of mind of both animals and humans. Often you have a feeling that they can even read your thoughts. This is probably due to the fact that the cat is well endowed by nature to read body language and scents as well as facial expressions. A cat will also perceive even the slightest change in your tone of voice. Often the cat will find out how you feel a little before you find out yourself.

So the cat could probably tell that Kerry felt guilty about something, and that Corazon didn't like Kerry.

Cats also grieve.

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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:47 am

Mango
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Meow

I am not a ghost!

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:43 am

Mango
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*ahem*

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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:38 pm

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